Flavia’s followers will know that I’m a huge fan of Louise Penny, who has now won – among many other awards – an astonishing four consecutive Agatha AFlavia’s followers will know that I’m a huge fan of Louise Penny, who has now won – among many other awards – an astonishing four consecutive Agatha Awards for her Armand Gamache series.

A new book from Louise is like Christmas in summer – a treat to be eked out and made to last. Interested?

Well, fetch the fireworks! Send up the skyrockets! – today is publication day for “A Trick of the Light”, the seventh in the series, and I, for one, can’t wait to get my hands on it.

Since Louise is, in many ways, the Godmother of the Flavia books, it’s always a special treat to return again in her company to the Quebec village of Three Pines, whose characters live and breathe as you and I.

If you haven’t already discovered these marvelous mysteries, there’s no better time to begin.

I’m sure you’re going to be hearing much, much more about “A Trick of the Light”. Grab a copy today!

Mary Novik breathes new life into the dust that lies beneath "Old St. Paul's".

Like Izaak Walton and Dr. Samuel Johnson before her, she explores the lMary Novik breathes new life into the dust that lies beneath "Old St. Paul's".

Like Izaak Walton and Dr. Samuel Johnson before her, she explores the life - and death - of John Donne, that curious clergyman whose effigy still stands wrapped in his shroud, even though the church that once contained it was long ago made ashes.

Her book joins the ranks of those select few authors - Peter Ackroyd, for one - whose books convey an abiding love of London, and what lies beneath....more